“​Have you heard of the expression ‘candy wrappers’? Do you recall visiting prostitutes? Mr. Cruz, we are now demanding you exit this race immediately or Anonymous will release all of the information that we have found,” the group said in a video statement. “Your so-called underground acts that you think were done in the dark, will be brought out for all the public to see. It will be sent to every media outlet to publicize your disgusting behavior. We assure you it will go viral on every social media platforms in a matter of minutes.”

In addition to the hacktivist group, a second suspect emerged on Friday.

Sources from Breitbart News told the Daily Beast that the publication’s editors had been approached with a Cruz sex story but turned it down.

“We got it from a Rubio ally,” the source told the Beast. “It was too thin, so [Breitbart’s Washington political editor Matt Boyle] decided not to run it. There was no way to verify the claims.”

Rumors of the story had apparently been circulating for weeks under a mystery hashtag.

Yet, no evidence, so far, has linked the Trump campaign to the rumors.

Unless you count the fact that in a bizarre twist Trump’s top spokeswoman has been named as one of the alleged mistresses. A claim she vehemently denied.

What’s worse? People who actually believe the trash in tabloids, or the ones who know it’s false &spread it anyway? #stupidity on all levels

“The Daily Beast reported it was shopped around by two — reporters by somebody who was a Rubio person. I also happen to know that one of the people who was shopping the story around very aggressively was somebody who was completely anti-Trump, and was anti-Cruz also, but who was not a person who in anyway was supporting Trump.”